Norman Ingram Hendey

Norman Ingram Hendey is a British Botaniste , born the January 31st 1903 with Lyndhurst and dead the August 30th 2004.

Biography

He studies in Southampton University College (today the university of Southampton) and becomes pharmacist. He begins with frequent in 1921 Southampton Natural History Society where he witnesses a presentation of Diatomée S. Hendey then becomes impassioned by the geometrical form and the complexity of his organizations. The reading of has Treatise one the Diatomaceae of Henri Ferdinand Van Heurck (1838-1909). It then buys a Microscope of occasion and starts to study the Diatomée S.

It acquires a true reputation in this field. Stanley Wells Kemp (1882-1945) entrusts to him the study of the specimens of plankton collected during maritime forwarding in the South Seas of the Discovery . During the Second world war, Hendey joined the intelligence service of the British navy.

Hendey is interested after the war, always on behalf of admiralty, with the causes of deterioration of certain components. It highlights that the development of a mushroom, Cladosporium resinae , causes the corrosion of the tanks containing the Fuel ships. It also shows that another mushroom, Myxotrichum deflexum , attacks the wood of the rafts of survival. At the request of the British ministry of agriculture and fishings, it makes appear in 1964, a study on the diatoms marine of the islands British S. Hendey is also interested in the use of the diatoms within the framework of the Legal medicine. It takes its continuous retirement in 1968 but to study these organizations until its hundredth birthday.

He is member many learned societies and described more than hundreds new Taxon S. Eleven organizations accepted its name.

Source

'' The Phycologist '', ''' 68 ''': 10-11. Obituary of G. Boalch

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